Posts Tagged ‘Election’
CNN Hosting South Carolina Debate in January
CNN and the Southern Republican Leadership Conference will host a Town Hall Republican presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina in January 2012 The Full Press Release “On behalf of the Southern Republican Conference Board of Directors, we are very excited to be working with CNN on this important presidential town hall debate,” said Ed McMullen, chairman of the SRLC board of directors. “We look forward to hosting our 2012 presidential candidates, and showcasing their conservative ideas.” “We welcome Republican candidates to our great state for what will be an important policy discussion about the future of our nation.” said South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, chairman of the SRLC. “Because of South Carolina’s role as the first-in-the-South, as [...]
Haley says no VP run in 2012
Gov. Nikki Haley said this morning she will not be a vice presidential candidate on anyone’s ticket next year and is committed to giving the people of South Carolina the four years they elected her to serve. “I find it silly,” Haley said about talk of her joining a Republican presidential ticket in 2012. “The people of South Carolina took a chance on electing me. It is my job and my family’s job to prove to them that they made a good decision,” Haley said on ABC’s “This Week.” via The Greenville News.
Mubarak: Will Delegate authority to Vice-president Omar Suleiman but won’t step down
By Albert N. Milliron (Politisite)– President Mubarak spoke live through Egyptian Television stating that he intends to remain President of Egypt until the national election that will take place in September 2011. He spoke to the Egyptian people calling himself a father figure toward the people as his children. He related that he will not be influenced by outside sources, possibly referring to the pressure he has received from the United States, and will not step down. He stated that he will effectively delegate authority to his unelected Vice-president, Omar Suleiman, who was sworn in just short of two weeks ago. Mubarak, stated that he wanted free and fare elections and to allow that process to provide a smooth transition to a new power after his nearly [...]
Voters Show Confidentce in Tuesday’s Election
Most voters are pretty confident that the right candidates were the official winners in last Tuesday’s elections, but nearly one-in-five think a lot of ineligible voters were allowed to cast ballots. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 74% of those who said they voted are at least somewhat confident that ballots were properly counted Tuesday and the right candidates were declared the winners. But that includes only 34% who are Very Confident of that fact. Twenty-four percent (24%) of Tuesday’s voters don’t share that confidence, with seven percent (7%) who are Not At All Confident. This is virtually identical to the responses from Likely U.S. Voters in a survey last month before their votes were cast and shows slightly more confidence in the process [...]
The Cook Political Report – Post election analysis
Anti-Democratic Rural Revolt Sweeps the House November 3, 2010 House Editor David Wasserman offers his brief take on the GOP tidal wave that washed over the House last night, claiming more than 50 Democratic incumbents and 14 of Democrats' 16 competitive open seats. Altogether, with about 10 races still not officially called, Republicans should end up gaining somewhere between 62 and 65 Democratic seats, the most seismic shift of House seats in a midterm election since 1938. Anyway you slice it, Democrats suffered a horrific night in the House, as huge progress they made in 2006 and 2008 was more than wiped out. But perhaps the most bewildering pattern in last night's results was anti-Democratic rural revolt. Although voters decimated roughly 25 percent of the Democratic [...]